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Muslim
Leader Urges Community to Fight Terror
courtesy: www.islamicsupremecouncil.org
Fox News Friday, July 19, 2002
By David Asman NEW YORK
Many Muslim
Americans have faced discrimination since Sept. 11, but one Muslim cleric is
working to change the terror-link perception while also working with the
community to prevent further terror from within.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani addressed his followers recently in New
Jersey, just miles from Ground Zero, and called for action and change amongst
Muslim Americans.
Kabbani wants to dispel the distorted image of Islam that has festered in the
post-Sept. 11 America. He visited Ground Zero as proof that a more moderate
voice of Islam is alive and well. He is a voice in support for peace and
understanding between all Americans.
Kabbani works as head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, encouraging
Muslims to join the war against terror and to denounce those who defile the
faith for their own violent ends."The Muslim community, they have been
hijacked by these terrorists," he said.
Some Islamic leaders have been outspoken about anti-Muslim behavior since Sept.
11, but some clerics such as Kabbani are hoping discrimination can be lessened
if Muslims work within Muslim American communities to pinpoint those terror
cells that still might exist.
"We are very successful in keeping that watchful eye against any kind of
terrorist and terrorism and when we find something we try to expose them and try
to show them that there is a threat here," he said.
While radical Islam seems to grab headlines, Kabbani¦s moderate approach is
gaining attention. And he is adamant that his look-within approach is not
anti-Islam as some extremist might proclaim.
"Those who are under the name of Islam and do an action of terror, they are
not Muslim anymore," he said. "They are apostate in our religion. They
went out of Islam when they killed innocent people."
Kabbani ridicules those who use the Koran to justify violence. The conflict is a
political one, he said not a religious one, and the radical voices must be
challenged.
"Leadership is very difficult to change because they hijacked the
microphone and they hijacked Islam," he said.
Kabbani has been actively working to spread the peaceful messages of Islam.
In March he met
with Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and his staff to introduce
the activities of ISCA and its promotion of moderate Islam throughout the world.
In addition to being chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America he is
president of The Muslim Magazine, chairman of the Kamilat Muslim Women's
Organization, advisor for Unity One, an organization devoted to ending gang
violence in America, and advisor for the Human Rights Council, which supports
the establishment of human rights and freedom in all nations.
Fox News' Amy C. Sims contributed to this report.
Fox News Network, LLC 2002. All rights reserved.
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